Re: Name vs GenericName (again)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le vendredi 25 juillet 2008, à 15:58 +0300, Karl Lattimer a écrit :
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 14:52 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In GNOME, we generally only use Name. Which mean gedit appears as "Text
> > Editor" and Totem as "Movie Player". Makes a lot of sense to me.
> > However, if you install another text editor or movie player, we end up
> > with something like "Text Editor" and "GVIM" in the menus, or "Movie
> > Player" and "VLC Movie Player", etc.
> > 
> > It doesn't really help that much. I'd like to propose the following:
> > 
> >  + define at the fd.o level some standard GenericName values (Text
> >    Editor, Movie Player, Calculator, etc.)
> >  + start using those GenericName values in .desktop files in GNOME
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426196
> 
> I provided this patch an ice age ago to let us edit the generic name tag
> easily by modifying the place in the gnome panel where the .desktop file
> editing occurs. 
> 
> If we apply this patch then at least we'll have a feature exposed in the
> UI. Then its not exactly a difficult matter of editing the files. 
> 
> Can we include this patch in 2.24 then worry about the rest for 2.26?

We don't use GenericName anywhere so making it editable wouldn't help us
for now.

Vincent

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